By Lynne Anderson

Abortion is the willful killing of innocent human life, John Waddey told a packed house at the Hyland Center Sunday night, and forces should be united to stand for those who cannot help themselves.

The president of Tennessee Volunteers for Life was in Atlanta to mark the seventh anniversary of the Supreme Court decision allowing abortion on demand. The key-note speaker at “Family Night in Support of Life,” Waddey urged pro-lifers to “stand up and fight.”

“If we keep up our fight against abortion, the power of good will overcome,” he told the standing-room only crowd.

Education of the American public is essential, he said, to help change values. Americans must be made aware that abortion is killing life, he said.

“If we killed a dog like we kill unborn babies with saline, we’d be fined,” he told the receptive audience.

Something is wrong with a society that will champion causes of animal life but will kill human life, Waddey said.

In addition to being “capital punishment of the innocent,” Waddey raised other moral objections on abortion.

“Abortion exploits women because doctors make millions of dollars from women’s problems,” he said, adding that most doctors tell patients that abortion is a “simple, safe procedure.”

Because of such exploitation, pro-lifers must push for an informed consent law which would require that doctors describe the stage of development of the unborn child to women considering an abortion, he said.

Blacks and poor people are groups particularly exploited by abortion he said, adding that 21% of all abortions are performed on blacks. Waddey read quotes from congressmen who believe the financial expediency of an abortion outweighs the possible financial burden of supporting a child until is 18 years old.

“It’s a cop-out by the government,” he said, “and an attack against home and family.”

Citing mortality figures from all American wars since 1775 till present, Waddey pointed out that the number of unborn babies killed in the same time far out-numbers the number of soldiers killed during that period.

“We have own medical holocaust,” Waddey said, pointing out that 7 million unborn babies have been killed legally in America.

The sad part, Waddey said, is that this legal death is a “raw judicial matter.”

“Seven men on the Supreme Court made the decision for us,” he told the crowd.

Waddey said he believes ardent feminists have influenced legislators about the E.R.A., and he said he believes Pro-Lifers can have and should have just as loud a voice.

Urging Pro-Lifers to contact lawmakers to let them know their antiabortion beliefs, Waddey challenged the crowd to “join in the fight for the most innocent life of all unborn human life.”